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Decision-Making and the Constitutional Treaty: Will the IGC discard Giscard? CEPS Policy Brief No. 37, August 2003 [PDF]

, 2003
[Introduction]. The EU’s draft Constitutional Treaty proposes the most radical reform of EU institutions ever put forward – more radical than those in the Single European Act, the Maastricht and Nice Treaties combined.
Widgren, Mika., Baldwin, Richard
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Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis, Claudia Williamson Kramer   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Animal Protection and Environmental Constitutionalism in Italy: An Anthropocentric Perspective Before and After the 2022 Reform

Review of European and Comparative Law
This article argues that, even after the 2022 constitutional reform, animal protection in Italy remains a mediated and anthropocentric form of constitutional protection, embedded within environmental constitutionalism and entrusted to legislative ...
Angela Cossiri
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From Map Follower to Navigator: Archetypes of Environmental Impact Assessment

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental impact assessment (EIA) scholarship is commonly framed as a tension between efficiency and comprehensiveness paradigms. These paradigms describe a persistent tension but cannot explain how EIA operates through it. Drawing on social systems theory, this analysis traces that operation.
Kenneth Kang
wiley   +1 more source

Normative Constraints Moderating Variability in Complex Sociotechnical Systems

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems resilience frameworks have advanced understanding of how complex systems adapt under uncertainty and stress. However, existing models primarily conceptualize adaptation as a performance‐centred adjustment and thus under‐specify how institutionalized normative commitments structurally delimit adaptability. This research note argues that
Alessandro Jatobá
wiley   +1 more source

Constitution of the United States: Mutation of the Constitutional Text

Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia, 2017
The article briefly explains the theory of a constitutional mutation, and the difference between it and a constitutional reform or a constitutional amendment.
Francisco López Rueda
doaj   +1 more source

An Action Plan for the Restructuring and Rationalization of the National Intercity Rail Passanger System [PDF]

, 2002
Final report of the Amtrak Reform Council describing their activities and findings regarding the Council's proposed action plan for restructuring the national intercity rail passenger system in the face of Amtrak's failure to achieve operational self ...
Amtrak Reform Council
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Inside the Black Box: Advancing Climate Disclosure in Australia's Energy Sector to Support a Resilient National Electricity Market

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alongside the 2024–2025 review of the National Electricity Market, Australian energy companies faced the most significant reforms to climate disclosures in corporate history. Specifically, the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standard for Climate‐related Disclosures (AASB S2) was announced in September 2024, after which all entities falling
Tracey Dodd, Melissa Nursey‐Bray, Rhys Thomas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis micro‐learning: A framework for understanding the micro‐flow of policy learning and Australia's COVID‐19 response

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract COVID‐19 has intensified interest in crisis policy learning, yet the micro‐level interactions among political, bureaucratic, and expert actors remain underexplored. We conceptualise an ideal‐type framework for the micro‐flow of crisis learning, an ordinarily epistemic and context‐specific process of individual‐level interactions, where lessons
Neil Mortimer, Nicholas Bromfield
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Reform: A Recipe for Restoring Faith in Our Democracy? [PDF]

, 2012
The first coalition since the Second World War is itself an innovation at Westminster. But it also came to power committed to an ambitious programme of constitutional reform – including fixed-term parliaments, directly elected mayors and local police ...
Seyd, Ben
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